secretary of commerce, carlos gutierrez, who co-chairs mitt romney's hispanic steering committee. gentlemen, thanks very much for joining us. mayor villaraigosa, i will start with you. the president participating in a discussion today in the spanish language network univision, was pressed pretty hard by the anchor, jorge ramos on why he didn't achieve comprehensive immigration reform in his first term. i want to play a little clip of that exchange and let you respond. listen to this. >> may 28th, 2008, we had a conversation in denver, colorado. you told me the following, and i want to quote you. what i can guarantee is that we will have in the first year an immigration bill that i strongly support. >> i confess i did not expect and so i'm happy to take responsibility for being naive here, is that republicans who had previously supported comprehensive immigration reform, my opponent in 2008, who had been a champion of it, and who attended these meetings, suddenly would walk away. that's what i did not anticipate. >> mr. mayor, we know the president enjoys a wide lead among hispanic